When discussing vocabulary, a distinction is often made between size of vocabulary
(number of known words) and depth of knowledge (how well those words are known) …

Increasing the vocabulary knowledge of young adolescent and adolescent students has
been a focal point of educational research and many teacher professional development …

Understanding how words change their meanings over time is key to models of language
and cultural evolution, but historical data on meaning is scarce, making theories hard to …

Coh-Metrix is among the broadest and most sophisticated automated textual assessment
tools available today. Automated Evaluation of Text and Discourse with Coh-Metrix …

This study introduces the second release of the Tool for the Automatic Analysis of Lexical
Sophistication (TAALES 2.0), a freely available and easy-to-use text analysis tool. TAALES …

This study explores the construct of lexical sophistication and its applications for measuring
second language lexical and speaking proficiency. In doing so, the study introduces the Tool …

Now in a fifth edition, this bestselling introductory textbook remains the cornerstone volume
for the study of second language acquisition (SLA). Its chapters have been fully updated …

An important topic in writing research has been the use of cohesive features. Much of this
research has focused on local and text cohesion. The few studies that have studied global …

The linguistic features of academic spoken English are different from those of academic
written English. Therefore, for this study, an Academic Spoken Word List (ASWL) was …

Lexical sophistication is an important component of writing proficiency. New lexical indices
related to range, n-gram frequency, psycholinguistic word information, academic language …